BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 4/6/2026 – The National Center for Rural Road Safety’s (the Center) signature road safety training program is seeing an uptick in multiple career pathway graduates.
The Center’s Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) graduated 59 participants in fall 2025, including several practitioners who completed training in at least two career pathways. According to the Center’s director Jaime Sullivan, the trend reflects a growing desire among practitioners to expand safety knowledge across disciplines.
“As we’ve added new career pathways, interest in RSCP enrollment has increased,” Sullivan said. “The uptick of graduates from multiple pathways signals that the Center is offering the kind of road safety training that practitioners are looking for, particularly those interested in understanding safety from the Safe System Approach perspective as applied across various career pathways.”
“We are proud of each one of our graduates,” she added.
The RSCP is a nationally recognized certification program that provides intensive ‘Road Safety 101’ training through web-based modules that cover the core topics of road safety and road safety within the planning and engineering (P&E), maintenance and construction (M&C), first responders (FR), and public health (PH) career pathways.
The RSCP is administered by the Center and participating LTAPs.
If you are interested in becoming an RSCP Champion, visit ruralsafetycenter.org/safety-center-registration for upcoming offerings.
Fall of 2025 RSCP graduates (grouped by career pathway, listed by last name in alphabetical order):
Multiple Pathway Graduates
- Terry Chustz, Louisiana Highway Safety Commission (P&E and FR)
- Connie Giroux, DHHS/Indian Health Service (P&E and PH)
- Elaine Mariolle, Arizona Department of Transportation (P&E and PH)
- George Mortorff, Carroll County Government (P&E and M&C)
- Linda Rideout, Rocky Mount Urban Area MPO (P&E and FR)
- Kyle J. Kemmish, HNTB (previous P&E and M&C graduate)
- Samuel Winkler, David Evans and Associates (FR and previous P&E graduate)
- J. Addison, VCMG (FR and previous P&E and M&C graduate)
- Lance R. Cook, University of North Florida (PH and previous P&E graduate)
- Kathy Davis, City of Federal Way (PH and previous P&E graduate)
- Salina Markez, CCSD (PH and previous P&E graduate)
- Rita Murphy Lybek, Wisconsin Department of Transportation (PH and previous P&E graduate)
- Jason R. Plourd, BETA Group, Inc. (PH and previous P&E graduate)
- Sean Smith, Pennington County Highway Department (P&E and previous M&C graduate)
First Responder
- J. Addison, VCMG
- Michael B. Brown, Red Oak Community Rural Fire Department
- Kelli Bruemmer, Oklahoma Highway Safety Office
- Terry Chustz, Louisiana Highway Safety Commission
- Paul Joseph Juliano, Olive Fire Department Co.#1, Inc.
- Kyle J. Kemmish, HNTB
- Michael O’Hara, Manchester Township Police
- Linda Rideout, Rocky Mount Urban Area MPO
- Samuel Winkler, David Evans and Associates
Public Health Graduates
- Lance R. Cook, University of North Florida
- Kathy Davis, City of Federal Way
- Joseph Faris, Siskiyou County Public Works Road Department
- Connie Giroux, DHHS/Indian Health Service
- Clayton Alexander Groves, Penn State College of Medicine
- Samuel Edward Jones, Appalachian Promise Alliance
- Salina Markez, CCSD
- Elaine Mariolle, Arizona Department of Transportation
- Hillary Mead, Cherokee Nation
- Rita Murphy Lybek, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
- Jason R. Plourd, BETA Group, Inc.
- Haley Reed, Southeast Idaho Council of Governments (SICOG)
Maintenance & Construction Graduates
- George Mortorff, Carroll County Government
Planning & Engineering Graduates
- Scott D. Barnhart, PE, PTOE, El Paso County Department of Public Works
- Eric Best, Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Joseph Charles Blakeman, EMCS, Inc.
- Regina P. Bowman, RS&H
- Carol Bracht, Boonslick Regional Planning Commission
- Terry Chustz, Louisiana Highway Safety Commission
- Haywood Daughtry, VHB
- Matthew R. Dawson-Mathur, PE, PTOE, Texas Department of Transportation, Bryan District Maintenance
- Billy N. Douglas, Department of Public Safety (DPS)/Louisiana Highway Safety Commission (LHSC)
- Connie Giroux, DHHS/Indian Health Service
- Travis Fast, Cochise County Engineering and Natural Resources Department
- Girma Feyissa, PE, Minnesota DOT -State Aid for Local Transportation
- Michael Bill Hales, Utah LTAP
- Md Julfiker Hossain Ph.D., P.E., RSP2I, CDM Smith
- Edward I. Init, PMP, City of Moreno Valley
- Jason Jardine, P.Eng., PTOE, Parsons Inc.
- Deborah LaCombe, Confederated Colville Tribes DOT
- Shay League, Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County (RTC Washoe)
- Teresa Lee, Boonslick Regional Planning Commission
- Elaine Mariolle, Arizona Department of Transportation
- Jenni Marner, Champaign County Highway Department
- Nikhil Menon, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
- Elisabeta Mitran, Ph.D., Louisiana Transportation Research Center/University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Jennifer K. Mizzell, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
- Preston Moore, El Dorado County Department of Transportation
- Ryan R. Morrison, P.E., Whatcom County Public Works
- George Mortorff, Carroll County Government
- Chris Petty, P.L.(Eng.), RSP1, Associated Engineering
- John Wilson Pickrell V, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Traffic Engineering Division
- Scott A. Rayho, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) District 8 Land Acquisition
- Linda Rideout, Rocky Mount Urban Area MPO
- Laura M. Riggs, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
- Larry Santucci, New York State Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee
- Joan Schexnayder, Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
- Donald Schuck, New York Statewide Training & Educational Programs/ Services (NYSTEPS)
- David D. Seitz, Kansas Department of Transportation
- Scott Shea, AECOM
- Sean Smith, Pennington County Highway Department
- Jessica Smith, Hermann & Associates, LLC
- Adrian Stroupe, Michigan Department of Transportation
- Norman Umberger, The Southwest Institute
- Max Wilcox, Kansas Department of Transportation
A full graduate list including graduates from Virginia and Texas LTAPs can be found at ruralsafetycenter.org/road-safety-champion-program-2/. (If you are an LTAP offering the program and have graduates, please contact us at info@ruralsafetycenter.org to get your graduates added to our list.)